Queer Devotion Spirituality Beyond the Binary in Myth, Story, and Practice

by Burgess, Charlie Claire

• ISBN13: 9781401978525
• ISBN10: 1401978525
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-05-20
• Publisher: Hay House LLC

Summary

A liberating exploration of the queer divine in deities and figures of myth and legend that opens pathways for LGBTQIA+ people to revere the divinity within and create an affirming spiritual practice.

A spiritual practice can be an intensely affirming thing, but for many LGBTQIA+ individuals, it is instead an alienating one. Queer Devotion seeks to open pathways for LBGTQIA+ people to connect with the divine by revering and celebrating the queer divinity in ourselves. By exploring the Queer Divine in existing gods, goddesses, and goddexes of mythology—Inanna, Hermes, Loki, Osiris, and more—we’ll resurrect the queer divine within ourselves through explorations and queered retellings of their stories. But we can also queer the idea of divinity itself, illuminating queer threads in Arthurian legend, European folklore, Victorian monsters, and witchcraft.

Lastly, to build a queer devotional practice, Burgess offers exercises, reflection prompts, and ritual suggestions for you to build your own, personal practice of liberated, self-defined, and self-directed queer devotion.

Author Biography

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) is a queer and non-binary tarot reader, tarot teacher, deck creator, writer, artist, and witch. They are the creator and illustrator of Fifth Spirit Tarot and the author of Radical Tarot. They host The Word Witch podcast and are also a short story writer—their stories have appeared in literary journals and anthologies,and have received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention (2014) and notable mentions in two Best American anthologies.